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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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